I noticed there’s a lot of " This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot." Post. And I am wondering why?

I dont really understand why these are popular. The bots are only copying the OP Post and not the comments.

  • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    3 years ago

    I feel like it would be better to have a dedicated Reddit-mirror instance that instances can choose to federate with.

    The issue is mirror posts are not organic which is not conducive to high quality discussion. If a community only gets 10 original posts a day but a mirror bot is dumping well over 1000 posts a day, that’s a problem because the organic content will get drowned out and further disincentivize people from posting and actually growing the community.

  • simple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 years ago

    Some people want to follow Reddit content without opening it. You can block the bot posting these if it’s annoying. I did that and never saw it again.

  • Mininux@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    I think i read on lemmit.online that pulling aaalll the comments is harder, and the bot would have to update them as they are edited too